The Boring Company is a venture by Musk that will move traffic underground.
The company's visitor-ferrying tunnel at the Las Vegas Convention Center is starting to experience traffic jams on its own during this year's Consumer Electronics Show.
A passenger asked if there was a lot of traffic in the video, which showed a pile up of stationary vehicles inside the single-lane tunnel. The driver in the video said that the doors at one of the stops were closed and that caused the debacle.
Overload is very heavy.
The convention center has a loop that connects the West and South Halls, so visitors can hop in a car and travel 1.7 miles.
The problem the Boring Company is trying to solve is traffic jams, and having thousands of people pack into cars and then drive them down a single-lane tunnel is bound to end up with that. The Boring Company was proposed by Musk because he was annoyed by slow traffic.
The tunnel is not wide enough to allow the doors to open fully in an emergency. Drivers are trained to reverse out of the tunnel or drive to the nearest station according to documentation filed with the local fire department.
Last year, Musk encouraged his followers to try out the tunnel, but now it sounds like it is both.
Many have pointed out that the design of the Loop, the vehicles and all, wasn't going to change transportation in a meaningful way. We have proof that the system is quick to collapse.
There is a traffic jam in Las Vegas with a Boring Company tunnel.
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